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[puffing]

[ first off: don't ask questions about the username. Bigby assumes it's subtle enough considering no one here knows him as the Big Bad Wolf, but he doesn't really... realize... the implications of the abbreviation he chose. oh well.

there's more pressing matters to attend to. ]

Not even here a goddamn month and shit goes to hell. Because of course. So much for peace.

[ on camera is a man who doesn't seem very pleased with the current chaos of the recent bombing. a moment is given to take a drag of his cigarette between words, blowing a puff of smoke straight towards whoever is watching. ]

I need information on the fugitives. Don't care if you're best friends or you've crossed paths with them once. Backgrounds, real names, affiliations, common hangouts. Also addresses on where they live. Give me a scent to work with and they'll be found.

[ another inhale of nicotine before he smothers the embers on a nearby surface. he's still as displeased as five seconds ago. ]

Also don't really care if they're in deep with this Shady Fucker or just a matter of "wrong place, wrong time". They have questions to answer one way or another. Got a problem with that? Take a wild guess on how I feel.

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text; un umenosuke

[shikomizue]

[what a hard-boiled man...]

After you turn these fugitives in, do you take the entire reward for yourself?

Doesn't sound like a good deal for your potential informants.

[puffing]

[ that's definitely one way to describe him. ]

I know how informants work.
They'll be paid a certain percentage of the reward depending on how good their intel is.
Waste my time or fuck around with me and you'll be lucky if no reward is the most to worry about.
I'm looking to keep enough to take care my shitty home and that's it.

[shikomizue]

And in the meantime? Are you offering collateral? Or do you plan on taking them with you?

[puffing]

What?
Like hell am I going to be dragging along people into a potentially dangerous situation.
I'm not about to be liable for something like that.

As for collateral, it's not like I have much to give.
I just fucking got here.

[shikomizue]

Aren't you considerate.

If you have nothing of value, you're also quite audacious, to be asking for something with only promises of future profit in return.

[that totally sounds like an insult, but Takasugi finds this sort of boldness interesting]

I don't have any information to give you, but I assure you future contact if I come upon anything.

[puffing]

I'll take audacious as a compliment.
People usually use more colorful words.

[ insult or no, he hardly finds offense. Bigby is self-aware of his take charge attitude. no one asked him to come marching into the network and lead a manhunt towards the supposed criminals. he just kind of. chose to do that himself. like an asshole. ]

Good enough for me.
Word seems to get around pretty fast between us immigrants, so I'm going to hope you hold up to your word.
Don't be surprised if I go looking for you.

[shikomizue]

I'm sure they do.

[compliment understood, Takasugi appreciates that

assholes are more fun]

Of course.

And if you end up going through the trouble of hunting me down, there might be a drink in it for you.

[puffing]

I'll take it.
Though, it might be a tad bit easier to find you if I have a name.
"Umenosuke" isn't a lot to work with. Even for me.
Unless that's your name, anyway.

[shikomizue]

Why wouldn't it be my name?

[spoilers: it isn't]

[puffing]

I don't know.
Optimism that I'm lucky enough to not have to remember or pronounce a name like that?

lmao

[shikomizue]

[Heh.

'Takasugi Shinsuke' isn't much easier.]

Call me whatever you want, then.

And what should I call you? Or will you leave the nicknaming up to me?

[puffing]

I don't usually come up with nicknames that most people would call "polite".
To save you some embarrassment out in public, you may want to give me something to work with.

You can call me Bigby.
No nicknames needed.

[ considering it's... technically a nickname already and everything... ]

[shikomizue]

'Tani' is fine.
Unless you catch some inspiration for something else later on.

[He's willing to risk some degree of impoliteness.]

What sort of liquor do you prefer, Bigby?

[puffing]

Don't be a masochist.
Tani works for the time being.

[ seriously, why would he wanna subject himself to such a thing... ]

Darker, the better has always been my mindset.
Whiskey if I have to choose.
And you?

[shikomizue]

Wouldn't dream of it.
If your nickname is terrible, I'll tell you.

Or just call you something worse.

[For the sake of a good time, and in confidence that he come up with something more offensive.]

Sake.
But whiskey has been the start of some good nights, too.
Not that I remember much of them.

[The days of getting rambunctiously drunk are long, long gone, but he's sure his claim is at least partially true.]